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Sebastián Yatra lit the party at the opening of the Santiago 2023 Pan American Games

Sebastián Yatra lit the party at the opening of the Santiago 2023 Pan American Games, Transatlantic Today

US (Washington Insider Magazine) —This Friday night the Santiago 2023 Pan American Games were inaugurated by the president of Chile, Gabriel Boric, in a ceremony full of national dances and several musical guests, including the popular Colombian Sebastián Yatra.

The 40,000 tickets for the opening of the 2023 Pan American Games were sold out in just three hours, attracted by a show whose main star was Sebastián Yatra.

Yatra, one of the best-known singers in Latin America, walked around the entire field next to a Chilean flag surrounding the hundreds of dancers who accompanied him.

“We are about to start the 2023 Pan American Games,” the Colombian shouted to the public, before giving way to the last fireworks. “Chile offers its home as a meeting point of the Americas, as a place to look at each other again.”

The Colombian singer, a two-time Grammy winner in 2022, was the headliner of a show in which Los Jaivas, Los Bunkers, Los Tres also performed.

‘Tacones Rojos’ also got the audience dancing during the Yatra show that gave rise to the fireworks that ended the ceremony.

The show also featured a performance by Ana Tijoux and Movimiento Original, performers of the official anthem of Santiago 2023, ‘A la Cima’.

It was a ceremony that featured more than 5,000 dancers, actors and parades, among other urban artists, and that tried to convey the unity of Chileans and the cultural diversity of the host nation of the Pan American Games.

Party in Chile


“I declare, with great pride and joy, the 19th edition of the Pan American Games to be solemnly inaugurated,” said President Boric from one of the stands of the National Stadium, the main venue of the Pan American event.

This sporting event, which will last until November 5, is the most important that Chile has hosted since the 1962 World Cup and the 2015 Copa América. “We are a nation as extensive as it is diverse. Inhabitants of the sea and the mountain range, made of water, salt and copper. Chile is where the world begins,” said Chilean actress Amparo Noguera on stage.

The monologue gave way to the flag bearers of the 41 participating countries and the song “A la Cima”, the official anthem of Santiago 2023, performed by Chileans Anita Tijoux and Movimiento Original.

The Pan American cauldron was lit by 93-year-old former athlete Lucy López, who gave Chile the silver medal at the first Pan American Games in Buenos Aires 1951.

The ritual was accompanied by the Chilean swimmer Kristel Kobrich, the former soccer player Iván Zamorano and the Olympic tennis champions Nicolás Massú and Fernando González. The lighting of the flame was accompanied by a colorful drone show, which simulated the American continent and the official figures of Santiago 2023.

This article is originally published on eldiariony.com

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